NEW books on the kinetic theory of gases are rather rare phenomena. The best early comprehensive works on the subject were written in German, by O. E. Meyer (“Kinetische Theorie der Gase”, first ed.
IN 1904 there appeared a slender volume entitled “The Dynamical Theory of Gases”, in which the author, now Sir James Jeans, endeavoured to develop the theory “upon as exact a mathematical basis as ...